James 5:2

King James Version 1611 (Original)

Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 6:19-20 : 19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
  • Job 13:28 : 28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
  • Isa 50:9 : 9 Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
  • Isa 51:8 : 8 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
  • Jer 17:11 : 11 As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
  • Hos 5:12 : 12 Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
  • Luke 12:33 : 33 Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
  • Jas 2:2 : 2 For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;
  • 1 Pet 1:4 : 4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
  • Ps 39:11 : 11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

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    4Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

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    1Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.

  • Matt 6:19-20
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    19Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

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    33Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.

  • Job 13:28
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    28And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.

  • Rev 3:17-18
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    2For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;

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